THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA Seeks to Solve the Problem of Food in Long-Duration Space Exploration. “Since 2021, NASA has been conducting the Deep Space Food Challenge, which has called on private enterprise and university departments to help develop new ways to grow and cultivate food in space. This week, NASA announced the winners of $1.25 million in grants to help develop food production techniques for the new frontier.”
Archive for 2024
August 21, 2024
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Emerson College fires 10 employees, sees enrollment drop following anti-Israel demonstrations.
PLEASE, STOP — I’M ONLY ALLOWED TO VOTE FOR HIM ONCE THIS YEAR: Trump Signals a Future for Elon Musk in the White House.
It’s a Gizmodo report so, of course, it tries to run down both Trump and Musk — one man who revolutionized modern politicking and another who continues to revolutionize space travel. I’m not sure what Gizmodo has ever done.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: I’m SO Here for the Madness of a Potential Trump/RFK Jr. Alliance. “At this point, 2024 is no longer merely weird, it’s blackout drunk.”
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Amazon Essentials Men’s Classic-Fit 9″ Short. #CommissionEarned
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
Periodic update of the CRS report by Ron O'Rourke that depresses me the most. 🙁
"China’s navy is, by far, the largest of any country in East Asia, and sometime between 2015 and 2020 it surpassed the U.S. Navy in numbers of battle force ships"
😓@salisbot@cgberube pic.twitter.com/70OyksWyPa— Charlie B (@supbrow) August 20, 2024
JEFF GOLDSTEIN: The New Holy Wars.
DOG BITES MAN: Yup, the Biden-Harris Administration Cooked the Jobs Books. “Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. economists expect the government’s preliminary benchmark revisions on Wednesday to show payrolls growth in the year through March was at least 600,000 weaker than currently estimated — about 50,000 a month.”
CRISIS BY DESIGN:
The day after the DNC endorsed amnesty for human traffickers, the DHS Inspector General confirms that Biden-Harris handed over ~320k unaccompanied alien children back to the traffickers. This is FAR WORSE than the 85k lost UAC previously reported by NYT pic.twitter.com/gqgTYsRy0W
— Rob Law (@the_roblaw) August 20, 2024
Plus: “The Inspector General confirms that these migrant children Biden-Harris facilitated being trafficked to the US are now trapped in sex trafficking & forced labor. There is NO plan to locate them & return to home country.”
Evil.
TO BE FAIR, WHY WOULD THEY BE? Kam-ugh-la: Voters aren’t wowed by Harris, not the ‘best.’
IN OTHER WORDS, BUSINESS AS USUAL: Obamas lecture America on decency as the Democrats lie.
Michelle says they don't get to change the rules to make sure they always win but they literally just changed all the rules and installed Kamala bc they knew they couldn't beat Trump with old man Biden. pic.twitter.com/0Wz0nFHqEK
— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) August 21, 2024
Militant leftists torch American flag at violent DNC protest: "This is what we think of your f-cking flag." pic.twitter.com/GuNmkmN7aN
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 21, 2024
LOL:
Michelle Obama says her parents were "suspicious of folks who took more than they needed."
She has 3 houses and a $160 million dollar net worth. pic.twitter.com/6iIgWcORyH
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) August 21, 2024
Plus:
MICHELLE OBAMA: “We don’t have the luxury of cheating others to get further ahead—We don’t get to change the rules so we always win.”
WOW. pic.twitter.com/W7t2MWWfmk
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 21, 2024
Except for, you know, forcing Biden out and installing Kamala without asking any voters.
THAT’S NO ACCIDENT: The ‘Good Vibes’ Convention Is Missing One Thing: Original Ideas.
THEY KNOW SHE’S LYING SO IT’S OKAY: Anti-Oil Groups, Undeterred by Harris’s U-Turn on Fracking, Spend Big To Boost Her Campaign.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Americans are doing less DIY. It’s another worrying sign for the economy.
A week after Home Depot described American consumers as having a “deferral mindset” about spending, Lowe’s is humming the same tune, saying American homeowners — and by extension the economy — are in a strange spot this summer.
Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison said on Tuesday that the home-improvement retailer’s DIY customers were “on the sidelines waiting for some form of an inflection to take place.”
Ellison was speaking on the company’s quarterly earnings call, during which Lowe’s lowered its earnings expectations for the rest of the year because of a slowdown in sales for big-ticket discretionary projects.
Large projects represent about three-quarters of DIY sales for Lowe’s, Ellison said, “so any pullback in these big-ticket discretionary categories is really more of a disproportionate impact to us.”
Americans are tapped out and interest rates are high. The only surprise is that the pullback took so long.
It’s all going swimmingly:
National Anthem does not go well on day two of DNC.pic.twitter.com/XlGNSCIIPc
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 20, 2024
LIES, DAMN LIES & STATISTICS: About those surveys showing Harris leading Trump by 1-4 points nationally, pollster John McLaughlin explains how the data is being manipulated to produce the desired results.
SHE ADOPTED A ‘SOUTHERN’ ACCENT” BLESS HER PEA-PICKING LITTLE HEART: AOC ripped for ‘fake’ accent during fiery DNC speech.
MOVING TOWARD INSTITUTIONAL NEUTRALITY: Johns Hopkins University Articulates Restrained Approach to Issuing Public Statements.
NOT EVEN MY SHOCKED FACE: This should shock literally no one.
THOSE NASTY REPUBLICANS! Biden accused of abuse of power, obstruction in blistering House Republican impeachment report hours before his DNC speech.
I suspect they pounced, too….
THE SIMPLEST QUESTIONS ARE HARDEST TO OBFUSCATE: Here’s the Simple Question That Tripped Up Kamala Harris in PA.
NO, IT ONLY EXPOSES WHY THE TIMING WAS CONVENIENT: Damning impeachment report shows why Dems were desperate to get rid of corrupt Biden.
AS HE SHOULD. DEMOCRATS ARE DISGUSTING: Vance Slams Gov. Beshear for Suggesting a Vance Family Member Get Pregnant Through Rape.
IN FAIRNESS, WRECKING STUFF IS ABOUT ALL THEY’RE GOOD AT: Pro-Hamas Activists Are Wrecking a Key Democratic Talking Point Right Now.